I'd like to start this one off with this story (courtesy of Digg): Last week during a hearing at the House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, Congressman John Shinkmus (R) opened up with a couple of readings from the Bible in which he basically implied that man cannot cause the end of the world, because that's God's job so Global Warming isn't a problem.

Discuss!Since it crosses over nicely into politics, I'm starting the politics thread with the same piece so we can look at this from two angles and also JUST BECAUSE I CAN.

For those of you who haven't guessed, I think he's a moron. I'm an atheist, but even if I weren't surely that logic would be flawed? Would the Congressman suggest starting a nuclear war based on the same logic?

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He's going by the whole "anything that happens is part of God's Plan and so anything that happens is God's Fault" logic which is total bullcrap. Seriously I can't stand it when people do that.

G: Like helplessness experiments. That's the biggest problem in zombie apocalypses. People who survive will always eventually come to question why they bother.Seamus: The biggest problem in zombie apocalypses is poor planning and not enough ammo.

starseedjenny wrote:He's going by the whole "anything that happens is part of God's Plan and so anything that happens is God's Fault" logic which is total bullcrap. Seriously I can't stand it when people do that.

the_shankmaster wrote:Okay, assuming humans can't END the world, we can still make it a pretty crappy place to live in while we wait for Jesus to come back. This guy's logic is horrible.

That is also true.

And I don't think it's that we CAN'T end the world so much as we WON'T end the world before God does it. It just won't happen, sequence-wise.

G: Like helplessness experiments. That's the biggest problem in zombie apocalypses. People who survive will always eventually come to question why they bother.Seamus: The biggest problem in zombie apocalypses is poor planning and not enough ammo.

Owen wrote:I'd like to start this one off with this story (courtesy of Digg): Last week during a hearing at the House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, Congressman John Shinkmus (R) opened up with a couple of readings from the Bible in which he basically implied that man cannot cause the end of the world, because that's God's job so Global Warming isn't a problem.